Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

[Klaus major-k]

> Am 12.08.2017 um 23:47 schrieb Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> Thank you - I'm sure there will be no issue with giving you the relevant privileges.

I had been asking for this a long time ago, but obviously the mothership did not want to trust a long time user (since 1999)
who already has (limited) admin permissions for a couple of years on the forum, THAT far.

So I deleted the 49 slavic spam postings manually a couple of minutes ago...

> I know Heather has to deal with things like this on a regular basis and having others who are willing to assist can only help.
> 
> Warmest Regards,
> 
> Mark.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 12 Aug 2017, at 21:26, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>> 
>>> The Forums are filling up quickly with a whole lot of nonsense about
>>> cars in Russian (althought, oddly enough it seems to be coming from
>>> the Ukraine).
>> 
>> Thank you for the report.  In the future, please use the "Report Post" link near the upper-right of each post.  That will flag it for moderation, where it will normally be handled quickly as soon as the next moderator shows up and does our customary "New Posts" to review.
>> 
>> In this case (and the copycat later today) I banned the user but did not remove the posts.  There were too many.  In the past I used to hunt down individual posts and delete them, because that's all my moderator privileges allowed.  Since then I've used PHPBB on other sites where I have full privileges, and PHPBB provides an option to delete all posts from a given user, a much better use of time.
>> 
>> I've written Support to let them decide whether to elevate my privileges to allow me to efficiently remove the spam posts, or to user their own powers to do so.  Hopefully that will be addressed shortly.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World Systems
>> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web

Best

Klaus

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